By Daniel | Season 1 | Episode 20 | Aired on 2005.04.06
For some reason -- most likely Jack's makeshift operating room -- this episode reminded me of one of those episodes of M*A*S*H where Radar or Klinger writes a letter home that details the wacky goings-on in the 4077th. We pick up right after last week, with Jack performing emergency surgery on Boone, God's Bloody Gift to Humanity. As many predicted, there is no sign of Locke or the hatch this week, but at least that's actually a plot point, since Locke lied about what happened to Boone, and when a dying Boone spits out what actually happened, Jack's pissed. He goes to extraordinary lengths to try to save Boone, because he's Dr. Committed, or some such, which we're supposed to get by watching flashbacks in which he marries a woman he saved after a car wreck, even though he's not sure he loves her. Are we supposed to think he's dedicated, or an idiot? Jack's preparing to amputate Boone's leg, much to Sun's horror, when Boone asks Jack to let him go, which he finally does. And then Mel Gibson shows up, calling it "island-sanctioned murder," and also that he's going to make a film about it. Jack apparently agrees with Mel, as he sets out to find Locke, whom Jack blames for Boone's death.
Elsewhere, Claire goes into labour, and because Jack is preoccupied with working on Boone, it's up to Kate and Charlie to deliver the baby, like NO WONDER Claire was doing everything she could to keep the baby up in there. But everything works out okay, and Claire delivers a healthy six-week-old baby boy. I suspected she was overdue, but damn.